WINONA, Minn. – A resident at group home went berserk over a fellow resident’s cigarette-smoking and attacked the guy, said police who witnessed the assault. Joseph Allen Maupin, 35, was restrained and arrested. This was about 4:40 p.m. in the 450 block of East Second Street. Police had been called to a disturbance at the address and thought they had calmed the situation when, they said, Maupin shot out of his chair and smacked the other guy and grabbed the guy’s cigarette from his hand and slapped him three or four times, police said. Police said they tried to restrain Maupin but he dug his fingernails into a forearm of one officer and drew blood and kicked a second officer above a knee. Once cuffed, Maupin was off to jail.
Maupin. Facing three assault charges.